July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
Our monolithic application is almost ready.
One last thing that we need to add is a way for users to authenticate. Runnerly needs to know who's connected since the dashboard will display user-specific data. Forms also need to be secured. For instance, we don't want users to be able to edit other users' information.
For our monolithic solution, we'll implement a very simple basic authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) scheme where the user sends its credentials in the Authorization header. From a security point of view, using basic authentication is fine as long as the server uses SSL. When websites are called through HTTPS, the entire request is encrypted (including the ...
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